CHERNOBYL, Ukraine: Ukraine was on Tuesday due to unveil the world’s largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s doomed fourth reactor to ensure the safety of future generations across Europe.
The giant arch’s height of 108m makes it taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty while its weight of 36,000 tons is three times heavier that the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The €1.5-billion (RM7.09 billion) structure has been edged into place over an existing crumbling dome that the Soviets built in haste when disaster struck three decades ago on April 26.
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Source: theSun
